On Jun 16, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/2011 1:32 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Richard Elling >> <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You can run OpenVMS :-) >> Since *you* brought it up (I was not going to :-), how does VMS' >> versioning FS handle those issues ? >> > It doesn't, per se. VMS's filesystem has a "versioning" concept (i.e. every > time you do a close() on a file, it creates a new file with the version > number appended, e.g. foo;1 and foo;2 are the same file, different > versions). However, it is completely missing the rest of the features we're > talking about, like data *consistency* in that file. It's still up to the app > using the file to figure out what data consistency means, and such. Really, > all VMS adds is versioning, nothing else (no API, no additional features, > etc.). I believe NTFS was built on the same concept of file streams the VMS FS used for versioning. It's a very simple versioning system. Personnally I use Sharepoint, but there are other content management systems out there that provide what your looking for, so no need to bring out the crypt keeper. -Ross _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
